Dr. Lisa Moses Leff
Professor of History – American University
Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Lisa Leff is Professor of History at American University and Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD from the University of Chicago. A specialist in the history of Jews in modern France, she is the author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth Century France and The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, which was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Selected Publications

Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford, 2006)

The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (Oxford, 2015)

Colonialism and the Jews, co-edited with Ethan Katz and Maud Mandel (Indiana, 2017)

“Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries,” in Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, ed. Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam (Palgrave Series in Racism and Antisemitism, 2020)